CIO Seeks Power To Fight Reds
Atlantic City delegates to the CIO United Auto Workers convention plan a constitutional change. International officers would review cases where local leaders or members are charged yet found innocent of advocating Communist policies. President Walter Reuther urged unity talks with AFL and called for removing racketeering from waterfront unions.
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Atlantic City
N. J
CIO
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
American Federation
AFL International Longshoremen’s Association
Reuther
AFL Cio
AFL
AFL Executive Council
Americans Seek British Help for Yacht Hostage Release
American officials in Hong Kong plan to press Britain to secure the release of three Americans aboard the yacht Kert captured by Chinese Communists. Richard Applegate, Don Dixon, and Captain Ben Krasner were aboard the 42 foot vessel en route from Hong Kong to Macao when seized by a gunboat and towed to Lap Sap Mei island.
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Hong Kong
Julian F. Harrington
U. S
Peiping
Red Chima
State Department
United Press War
Richard Applegate
Lap Sap Mei Island
Applegate
Don Dixon
International News Service
Korea
Ben Krasner
Kert
Macao
S. Coote
Coote
Los Angeles
South China Sea
Amvets Splitover Leadership Rages in North Carolina
In North Carolina 18 of 95 Amvets state executive committee members demanded the resignation of state commander Paul Hester of Dunn. A May 17 Concord meeting was scheduled to resolve the split after a prior Statesville gathering fired state membership director Andrew Del Vescovo. Clarence Suggs and Tom Sawyer announced the resolution for Hester and officers to resign, citing failure to implement convention plans for a referendum on the veterans bonus and membership drive. Del Vescovo requested continued leadership without salary.
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Charlotte
Amvets
Paul Hester
Dunn
Concord
Veterans’ Group
Statesville
Andrew del Vescovo
Clarence Suggs
Tom Sawyer
Durham
Sawyer
Hester
Suggs
del Vescovo
Jamestown Student Posts Quirky Classroom Boners List
Jamestown New York Ruth D. Anderson from Jamestown High School shares a humorous list for collectors describing a caucus as a dead animal and the Age of Pericles as about 40, noting degrees of bad as bad, including very sick and dead.
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Jamestown
N.Y
Ruth D. Anderson
Jamestown High School
Pericles
Milkman’s Pour Sparks Standardized Quart Bottle Idea
In Potsdam New York a local man is credited with introducing the first standardized quart milk bottle in 1884. He previously poured milk from his can directly into customers pitchers.
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Pottsdam
N. Y
Soviet Peace Hints Seen As Playing For Time
United Press analysis argues Russian peace overtures are likely a ploy to stall. It notes Malenkov's authority, satellite delays in heavy industry, and Moscow aims to maintain gains in Romania Hungary and Bulgaria while pursuing union with Czechoslovakia.
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Phil Newsom
United Press Foreign
Reds
Georgi M. Malenkov
Stalin
Germany
Malenkov
Eisenhower
United Nations
Andrei Vishinsky
Moscow
Korea
Kremlin
Europe
Communist Party
Russia
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Czechovo
Dairymen Urged to Fix Problems Without Gov Support
Secretary Ezra Benson told the dairy industry in Chicago to solve its issues without government supports that price products out of the market. He warned that if trends continue butter may decline and called for revamping price support systems, noting the Agriculture Department holds about 330 million pounds of dairy products bought at 90 percent parity.
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Chicago
Ezra T. Benson
American Dairy Association
Benson
Agriculture Department
Tito sees Soviet leaders seek Cold War truce to strengthen ruling
London reports Tito told Churchill and British officials he believes the new Soviet rulers want a truce to stabilize their rule. He described Malenkov Beria and Molotov as a balanced trio with Stalin having forged them into tools, and said they lack real leadership.
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London
Tito
Yugoslavia
Winston Churchill
Kremlin
Josef Stalin
Georgi M. Malenkov
Lavrenti Beria
Vyacheslav Mo
West
Rift Leaves Church Minus Officers
The Chapel Hill Presbyterian church lost its officers after a 3 hour 30 minute commission session dissolved the boards of elders and deacons. Rev. Charles M. Jones was dismissed weeks earlier, and the commission cited a need for a fresh start with a new minister and officers. Acting pastor Rev. Robert J. McMullen was asked to serve as evangelist starting April 1 with broad powers except for officer elections and the pastor search.
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Chapel Hill
Z. T. Piephoff
Greensboro
Judicial Commission
Robert J. McMullen
Orphan David Hess Celebrates Birthday With Aid Relief Hands
In Chicago, six year old David Hess, youngest of five orphans, received hundreds of gifts at a Sunday party held in their five room cottage. More than 200 well wishers attended after national notices spurred donations, with toys, clothes, a 25 inch cake, and items including a tractor and building set amid a community’s response to the children’s plight.
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Chicago
David Hess
David
Carol Hess
Agnes Hess
Wilma
Walter
Agnes
Carol
Hess
Paroled convict held in brutal Newberry, South Carolina murders
In Newberry County a paroled Black man, Frank Penny of Prosperity, was held after the bodies of Rosalee De Walt 35 and her daughters Fannie 12 and Carrie 10 were found inside their farm tenant cabin. Sheriff Tom Fellers reported a three foot stovewood used in the assault and noted no known motive.
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Newberry
S. C
Rosalee de Walt
Fannie
Carrie
Horace de Walt
Newberry County
Tom Fellers
Frank Penny
Prosperity
Fellers
Maine revival across towns but varied local ventures
Maine notes a revival of Arsenic and Old Lace not on stage but in Freeport where Casco Laces Inc plans a community owned lace making plant. In Buckport talk grows of reopening a Verona Island mine yielding arsenic bearing mineral mispickel.
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Maine
Portland
Freeport
Casco Laces Inc
Buckport
Verona Island
Battle Calls for Tougher West Campaign to Cut Off Red Materials
Rep. Battle says Communists still obtain strategic materials from the West and urges a vigorous campaign to shut it off. He cites 300 embargoed items, notes loopholes for neutral nations, and calls for centralized long-range economic defense under a single American official. He highlights transshipment through Europe and seizures of ships and the tanker Seven Sea as actions against illegal sourcing.
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Washington
Battle
D-Ala
West
U. S
House
Europe
Switzerland
Sweden
Transbay Richmond
Calif
History notes impeachments with four guilty verdicts
In U.S. history twelve federal officials faced impeachment proceedings. Of those, four were found guilty on one or more counts.
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United States
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